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Prescription verification system

  • US 9,501,623 B2
  • Filed: 08/13/2012
  • Issued: 11/22/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/21/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for renewing prescriptions, comprising:

  • submitting, by a member pharmacy via a pharmacy computer system, a login request, including a password associated with the member pharmacy, to an internet website comprising processors and non-transitory memory storing records for a plurality of patients, each of the records containing a set of prescription information including a unique health care provider code identifying a particular member health care provider who prescribed the prescription, and a patient code uniquely identifying the patient receiving the prescription, one or more of the records containing prescription information indicative of filled prescriptions, the internet website also storing pharmacy passwords for verifying the identity of a plurality of member pharmacies, and also storing health care provider passwords for verifying the identity of a plurality of member health care providers;

    verifying, with the processors using the stored pharmacy passwords, that the login request is associated with one of the member pharmacies;

    providing, from the processors via the internet website an electronic prescription renewal screen to the pharmacy computer system, the prescription renewal screen being associated with a previously filled prescription;

    receiving, by the processors via the Internet website, information indicative of a refill request from the pharmacy computer system, the refill request identifying a requested refill of the previously filled prescription;

    identifying, by the processors using the records, the member health care provider that prescribed the prescription;

    receiving, by the processors, a login request from a provider computer system associated with the member health care provider that prescribed the prescription, the login request including the password associated with the member health care provider;

    verifying, by the processors using the stored health care provider passwords, that the login request is associated with the member health care provider identified by the previously filled prescription;

    transmitting, by the processors via the internet, the refill request through the internet website to the provider computer system;

    receiving, by the processors via the internet, an authorization from the provider computer system authorizing the refill request of the previously filled prescription;

    transmitting, by the internet website via the internet, the authorization to the pharmacy computer system from which the refill request originated; and

    fulfilling, by the member pharmacy, a refill prescription for a patient based on the transmitted authorization.

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